Elain Brown Tech 04.13.2022 20:Apr PM EDT

Samsung Introduces New 7200 MHz DDR5 RAM — the Most Powerful RAM Yet

Samsung has finally unveiled their newly designed DDR5 memory, which has been teased since last year. The South Korean tech giant has announced a significant advancement in DDR5 SDRAM design with the introduction of a 512GB DDR5.

Not only does this make it the world's most capacious stick of RAM, but Samsung also managed to take first place in terms of speed, with the new sticks capable of a mind-boggling 7,200 Mbps.

Samsung 512GB DDR5 RAM

Samsung's high-speed 512GB DDR5 memory module has just been released by the company. The company says the new memory modules can be used in servers that do "the most extreme compute-hungry, high-bandwidth tasks."

According to Gizguide, the Samsung 512GB DDR5 RAM has a transfer rate of 7,200 Mbps and can handle large amounts of data. This is intended to be used in conjunction with supercomputers, artificial intelligence handlers, and machine learning algorithms and techniques.

It makes use of the highly advanced HKMG technology, which eliminates the need for insulator layers in the DRAM structure. As a result, high performance is obtained while power consumption is reduced by 13%.

Specifically, the 512GB DDR5 RAM stick is composed of eight 16GB DRAM chips stacked on top of one another and interconnected via a 3D structure created using TSV technology.

The capacity and performance of the new Samsung DDR5 memory is not suitable for the majority of casual and even enthusiast PC users. In the consumer/gaming market, this is far beyond what one should require, even for the most intensive workload that can be thrown at a PC.

Samsung DDR5 RAM Design

It was necessary for Samsung to redesign its stocking process in order to deliver such a large amount of memory on the same PCB. Briefly put, this term refers to the way in which a manufacturer stacks different memory blocks on top of one another.

As The Press Stories reported, in their previous design, Samsung had stacked its DDR4 RAM modules into four different layers, which was a unique feature. The manufacturer has now been able to stack them after making significant modifications to the memory modules and partition layers used in the process. There are eight of these layers. By preserving this space, he was only able to install 512GB of RAM on the same computer.

The DDR5 RAM modules are physically identical to the DDR4 RAM sticks that are currently available. Instead of a new or increased number of pins compared to the predecessor, the new DDR5 has a similar or identical number of pins to the predecessor. It retains the same 288-pin layout, but the pinouts are slightly different from the original.

Compatibility for DDR5 RAM

For the time being, Samsung DDR5 RAM is only compatible with the 12th-gen Intel Core processors.

Some of these 12th-gen Intel Core processors are the 12600K, 12700K, and 12900K. AMD CPUs that are compatible with DDR5 are not yet available on the market, but they have been announced and will be available later this year.

Support for DDR5 memory modules has been added to the new 12th-generation Intel Core processors as well as AMD's Ryzen 6000 series mobile CPUs, which have both recently hit the market.

In addition to supporting DDR5 RAM, the upcoming AMD 7000 series desktop processors will be released soon, which means the industry will be seeing a lot of DDR5 memory in the coming months.